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- Title
A metaphysician of motion: Wells and history.
- Authors
Cooke, Bill
- Abstract
What value can we place on Wells's Outline of History a century on? Though his book has now been superseded, Wells deserves more respect as an historian than he has received. He had a deeper understanding of what he was doing than has been supposed, and is better understood as writing global history, philosophical history or evolutionary history in a way which avoided most of the errors of his contemporaries. In particular, Wells's suspicion of the Great Man notion of history, and of Eurocentrism, mark his work out as ahead of its time. Wells presented to his readers a metaphysics of humanity in motion in a way that remains credible. His bold metanarrative serves as a model for the many recent works written in that style. And as such, he deserves credit as a progenitor of contemporary global histories.
- Subjects
OUTLINE of History, The (Book : Wells); WELLS, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946; HISTORIANS; HISTORY; EUROCENTRISM
- Publication
Wellsian, 2022, Issue 45, p4
- ISSN
0263-1776
- Publication type
Article